Louisa Holmes Counselling & Psychotherapy, Supervision & Facilitation

22/03/2022

This is a great tool for everyone on ideas of how to regulate.

Our new tool to supports Children's healing and connection. Despite the growing body of knowledge in trauma-sensitive approaches, there can be a tendency to rely on behavioural assessments, which can unwittingly characterise traumatised children and young people as the problem.

10/11/2021

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26/10/2021

“Sometimes easier said than done.”
This gives good guidance as to how we get in the way of being compassionate to ourselves. What I see often is that children who grew up
without a good sense of “nuturance” struggle to understand or know how to offer compassion to themselves. So as adults they don’t know what self-compassion really means, nuturing themselves is a foreign concept.

There’s now a growing body of research demonstrating that relating to ourselves in a kind, friendly manner is essential for emotional wellbeing. More pointedly, research proves false many of the common myths about self-compassion that keep us trapped in the prison of relentless self-criticism.

05/09/2021

https://youtu.be/sCavy1qoP2I

Janina Fisher explains why trauma memories are "triggered" and not "recalled" like other memories."How trauma memories are stored in the body" with Janina Fi...

30/07/2021

Emotional neglect - the withholding of parental love during childhood - can have a psychological impact no less profound than other forms of abuse. Before we...

30/07/2021

“Grief is not linear. It comes, and it goes, it can be all encompassing, it can be a fleeting moment…and it is different for every person.”

08/07/2021

Offering the space where a client does not “have to” feel anything in particular creates the place of exploration. Here they learn to give themselves permission to “be” how they want to be.

Why Giving Up the Need to See Clients Change Can Actually Produce Results

20/05/2021

08/04/2021

Changing legislation so that Counsellors and Psychotherapists can offer Medicare rebate for sessions. With such a huge demand on the mental health system it seems insane to have to turn people away and let them sit on waitlist for months with psychologists.

07/04/2021